I promised myself I would complete a portfolio of images documenting my perceptions after the detached retina. There were a good number attempts to do this with my G11 camera in the first months after the surgery. I never got around to working on very many of them.

These photos are the weeping crabapple tree, 'Molten Lava' just outside my office door. (Click to see a larger view.) As I walk out of the office and look into the lower garden, past the variegated Rhamnus, and toward the autumnal orange foliage of Cotinus 'Grace', the red fruit of the crabapple move in relation to the shapes beyond. My hyper acute perception that I don't have depth perception makes me see these red balls of fruit as if they were a cel film overlay in an animation studio. [click to continue…]